Today, we are diving on a sonar anomaly on the Blake Plateau.
I see something. Here we go. I think we got something. We are
looking for the Bloody Marsh which was a oil tanker sunk by
a U boat during World War Two. The record we think this might
be is the the oil tank of Bloody Marsh which was finished
construction in 1943 in the middle of a push to get more
tankers up and hunting across the Atlantic to Europe in World
War Two. While it was steaming off the coast of South
Carolina, a torpedo from the U boat U66 struck the aft
portion of the side destroying the engine room and killing
three of the crewmen. The first one struck the engine room
which is at the stern and the crew started to abandon the
ship in life rafts.
It was reportedly sunk very quickly.
Speaks to the destructive power of World War two.
This wreck is on NOAA's potentially polluting wrecks
list. It was carrying over 106000 barrels of oil.